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An explanatory model for food-web structure and evolution [PDF]
, 2005 Food webs are networks describing who is eating whom in an ecological community. By now it is clear that many aspects of food-web structure are reproducible across diverse habitats, yet little is known about the driving force behind this structure ...
A.G. Rossberg +36 more
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Journal of Limnology, 2022 Food web studies rely heavily on the use of traditional gut content analysis or the fairly popular stable isotope analysis rather than fatty acid analysis (FAA) despite its straightforward process, and ability to identify and characterize more diverse ...
Justine R. de Leon +6 more
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Reduced tillage, but not organic matter input, increased nematode diversity and food web stability in European long‐term field experiments [PDF]
, 2019 Soil nematode communities and food web indices can inform about the complexity, nutrient flows and decomposition pathways of soil food webs, reflecting soil quality.
De Caceres M. +22 more
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Ecology, 2004 Both dynamic and topologic approaches in food webs have shown how structure alters conditions for stability. However, while most studies concerning the structure of food webs have shown a nonrandom pattern, it still remains unclear how this structure is related to compartmentalization and to responses to perturbations. Here we build a bridge
Melián, Carlos J., Bascompte, Jordi
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Bioaccumulation modelling and sensitivity analysis for discovering key players in contaminated food webs: the case study of PCBs in the Adriatic Sea [PDF]
, 2015 Modelling bioaccumulation processes at the food web level is the main step to analyse the effects of pollutants at the global ecosystem level. A crucial question is understanding which species play a key role in the trophic transfer of contaminants to ...
Marianna Taffi a, D +3 more
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Intraspecific Behavioral Variation Mediates Insect Prey Survival via Direct and Indirect Effects
Diversity, 2020 Conspecific individuals often exhibit behavioral differences that influence susceptibility to predation. Yet, how such trait differences scale to affect prey population regulation and community structure remains unclear.
Benjamin J. Toscano +2 more
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Distribution and drift dispersal dynamics of a caddisfly grazer in response to resource abundance and its ontogeny [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Stream grazers have a major impact on food web structure and the productivity of stream ecosystems; however, studies on the longitudinal (upstream versus downstream) and temporal changes in their drift dynamics and resulting distributions remain limited.
Izumi Katano +4 more
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Deleting species from model food webs [PDF]
, 2004 We use food webs generated by a model to investigate the effects of deleting species on other species in the web and on the web as a whole. The model incorporates a realistic population dynamics, adaptive foragers and other features which allow for the ...
Abrams +43 more
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Using food-web theory to conserve ecosystems [PDF]
, 2015 © 2016, Nature Publishing Group. All rights reserved.Food-web theory can be a powerful guide to the management of complex ecosystems. However, we show that indices of species importance common in food-web and network theory can be a poor guide to ...
McDonald-Madden, E, Possingham, HP
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Caught in the food web: complexity made simple?
Scientia Marina, 2001 Several historically separate lines of food-web research are merging into a unified approach. Connections between microbial and metazoan food webs are significant.
Lawrence R. Pomeroy
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